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Chaucer created/began using:
-seven line pentameter stanza
-Middle English
-iambic pentameter
-rhyming in conversation
-dream-vision poems

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Geoffrey Chaucer's gravestone became the first of what would be called Poet's Corner in the Westminster Abbey.

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One of the 24 tales
Exemplum-brief short story that illustrates a point.
Includes:
1) come in threes 2)moral test 3)mysterious guide 4)just ending
Themes: "Love of money is the root of all evil". Greed is a very large sin.

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In 1998, an original Caxton printing of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales sold at auction for $7.4 million.

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On St. George’s Day 1374, Edward III granted Geoffrey Chaucer a gallon of wine for every day for the rest of the poet’s life.

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Chaucer was a Prisoner of War during the Hundred Years' War.

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Geoffrey Chaucer has at least 9 other major works, other than The Canterbury Tales.
He also wrote many short poems as well.

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One of the 24 tales
Main Characters: Chanticleer the Rooster, Lady Pertelote, Sir Russel Fox
Themes: Do not fall for flattery. Learn from your mistakes. Trust your instincts.

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Current with the time period, Chaucer used Middle English which is a mix of many languages which makes it hard to read if not trained/used to reading in it

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There is a crater on the far side of the moon named after Chaucer

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Known as one of the greatest English works. It is also his best known and most acclaimed work.
Was written on Chaucer's way to Canterbury on a pilgrimage. He wrote down the stories of those on the trip with him.
Supposed to be 120 tales, only 24 were finished.
14th Century England

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Born- 1343?
Died- 1400
Father of English Literature
Born into middle class
Wife: Philippa Pan
Kids: Elizabeth, Thomas, Lewis

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His writings also consistently reflect an all-pervasive humor combined with serious and tolerant consideration of important philosophical questions.